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Excerpt from Napoleon's Last Voyages: Being the Diaries of Sir Thomas Ussher, R. N., K. C. B. (On Board the "Undaunted"), And John R. Glover, Secretary to Rear Admiral Cockburn (on Board the "Northumberland")
O'meara, now have the means Of correcting their estimate Of the Emperor by a perusal of un biassed narratives such as those here printed and the diaries kept by Colonel Neill Campbell at Elba, and by Gourgaud, Basil Jackson, and Lady Malcolm at St. Helena. In these we see, not a Prometheus, not an idol set up for partisan purposes, but a man.
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